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Anthropological Linguistics
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Study of language (from anthropological view)
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Ethnopoetics
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A method of recording narrative speech acts (includes oral poetry, stories). This helps to capture the poetic format and other performative elements that might be lost if only written.
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Ethnography of speaking
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The study of how people use spoken language in a particular cultural setting.
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Call systems
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Patterned sounds, utterances and movements of the body that express meaning.
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Philology
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Comparative study of ancient texts.
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Proto-language
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A hypothetical common ancestral language of two or more living languages.
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Cognate words
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Words in two languages that have the same sound shifts as other words; indicative of a common linguistic ancestry.
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Descriptive Linguistics
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Systematic analysis and description of a language's sound system and grammar.
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Morphology
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The structure of words and word formation in a language
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Sociolinguistics
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The study of how sociocultural context and norms shape language use, and the effects of language use on society.
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Linguistic relativity
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The idea that people speaking different languages perceive or interpret the world differently because of differences in their languages.
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Ethnoscience
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The study of how people classify things in the world, by considering some range or set of meanings.
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Creole
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A language of mixed orgin that has developed from a complex blending of two parent languages and exists as a mother tongue for some part of the population.
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Pidgin
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A mixed language with a simplified grammer, borrowing vocabulary from on language but it's grammer from another.
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Language ideology
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Assumptions that people make about the relative sophistication and status of particular dialects and languages.
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Term
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Paraphrased Def.
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Anthropological Linguistics
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Study of language in anthropology.
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Ethnography of speaking
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Study of how people speak in cultural settings.
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Ethnopoetics
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Recording (poetic, narrative) oral traditions in a way that maintains the performative aspect.
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Call systems
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Patterned sounds and body movements that express meaning.
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Philology
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comparative study of ancient texts.
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Proto-language
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A hypothetical common language of two or more living languages.
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Cognate words
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Words in two language that are pronounced (sometimes spelled) the same way.
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Descriptive linguistics
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Analysis of a language's phonetics and grammar.
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Phonology
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Pattern of sounds in a language
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Morphology
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Structure and syntax of words
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Sociolingustics
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Study of how society affects/shapes language
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Linguistic Relativity
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People speaking different languages perceive the world differently because of the differences in their languages.
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Ethnoscience
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Study of how people classify things in the world.
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Creole
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The language developed from blending two existing languages.
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Pidgin
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Mixed language with simple grammar that borrows vocabulary from one language and grammar from another
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Language Ideology
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Assumptions that people make about the status of particular dialects and languages.
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